McDonald, Caitlin(University of ExeterInstitute of Arab and Islamic StudiesSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010-04-15)

This thesis is an ethnography of the global belly dance community with particular reference to the transmission of dance paradigms from Cairo to the international dance community. Key words describing my topic include ...

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre survived the French revolution and was subsequently lionised, becoming a member of the École Normale and the Institut. Maurice Souriau, and most recently Malcolm Cook have looked at his contributions ...

Re-evaluating classic work in the sociology of the visual arts, this Ph.D. thesis explores the tacit and practical bases of artistic mediation with reference to curatorial exhibition making in contemporary art. Data presented ...

This thesis draws critically on approaches to globalisation, translation and
advertising to analyse current translation practices using multimodal advertising
texts. The purpose of this study is both to show evidence of ...

This thesis tests a newly developed model based on the Natyashastra, an Indian treatise on performing arts, and uses this for theatrical analysis in the contexts of British Asian theatre productions and contemporary Indian ...

This work consists of a portfolio of creative writing in the form of a collection of short stories, The Jerusalem Syndrome, followed by a thesis, “Biblical Perspectives on the Holiness of Place, Body, and Mortality in The ...

This thesis presents an investigation into some of the structural colours that are produced in nature. There are many animals and plants that produce structural colour, with a particularly high structural colour diversity ...

The Aldo-Keto Reductases (AKR) are a group of oxidoreductase enzymes structurally and mechanistically distinct from the Alcohol Dehydrogenases (ADH). The AKRs are of importance for their ability to produce industrially ...

An L-haloacid dehalohenase from the psychrophilic marine bacteria Psychromonas ingrahamii has been cloned, over-expressed in a bacterial expression system and biochemically characterised. The enzyme is stable at temperatures ...

Biochemical consequences of ascorbate deficiency were studied in the leaf tissue of Arabidopsis thaliana ascorbate-deficient vtc mutants with a view of understanding the relationship between ascorbate, stress response and ...

There has been great concern within the scientific community about biodiversity loss and the extinction crisis worldwide. In order to set priority targets for biodiversity conservation in any region of the world, it is ...

The population of harbour ragworms, Nereis diversicolor, inhabiting the upper reaches of Restronguet Creek in the Fal Ria, UK, are known to be resistant to the acute, toxic effects of copper, zinc and cadmium. This research ...

Coombes, Martin Andrew(University of ExeterCollege of Life and Environmental SciencesGeography, 2011-02-28)

Urbanisation is increasingly recognised as a major ecological pressure at the coast. By 2035, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will have to spend £1 billion each year on flood defence and erosion ...

By providing a rapid and cost effective means of generating sequencing resources for almost any organism, ‘Next generation sequencing technologies’ (NGS) have great potential to help address numerous gene and genome level ...

Osborne, Olivia Joanna(University of ExeterCollege of Life and Environmental SciencesBiological Sciences, 2013-12-11)

As the nanotechnology industry grows rapidly, the release of nanoparticles (NPs) will increase in the environment. The special functional properties of NPs bring uncertainty on how they will affect exposed organisms. Aquatic ...

In this dissertation I criticize and reconfigure the ontological framework within which discussions of the organization, ontogeny, and evolution of organic form have often been conducted. Explanations of organismal form ...

Lilley, Kim Louise(University of ExeterCollege of Life and Environmental Sciences, 2012-02-03)

Due to a proliferation of health and social advantages, the popularity of running among the more mature members of the female population is expanding steadily. However, with both age and gender acting as possible risk ...

Due to their prevalence and associated high rehabilitation costs, this thesis aimed to better understand factors influencing the risk of tibial (TSF) and third metatarsal (MT3SF) stress fractures in Royal Marine recruit ...

This thesis examines post-war black British theatre through a transnational lens. It argues that the hitherto prioritization of a national paradigm in discussions of black British theatre is not sufficiently complex to ...